Protestant Principle, Catholic Substance

AUTHOR(S)

Conyers, A. J.

PUB. DATE

November 1996

SOURCE

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion & Public Life;Nov1996, Issue 67, p15

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Focuses on the Protestant reformation in the U.S. Obstacle to the renewal of Christian intellectual life; Information on inadvertent losses of the Protestant reformation which resulted from its eagerness to separate itself from the Sophists; Views on Protestant reformation.

ACCESSION #

17752997

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